Merge pull request #118 from Namyalg/medium-article-downloader

Script to download Medium articles

Author: powerexploit

Web-Scraping/Medium_article_downloader/Article_downloader.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+
+#Imports and dependencies
+
+import requests
+from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
+
+def download_article():
+
+    #The content is written into a text file
+
+    file = open("Medium_article_content.txt", "w")
+
+    #The URL of the article is entered here
+    page_url = input("Enter the URL of the Medium Article ")
+
+    #On looking for "my user agent", can be used to retrieve the value"
+    headers = {"User-Agent": 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:79.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/79.0'} 
+
+    response = requests.get(page_url)
+
+    soup = BeautifulSoup(response.text,"html.parser")
+
+    #The content of the article is stored in the <article> tag
+
+    for line in soup.find('article').find('div'):
+  
+    #All the content is essentially stored between <p> tags
+  
+        for content in line.find_all('p'):
+
+        #contents are written into a file
+    
+            file.write(content.text + '\n')
+
+    file.close()
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    download_article()

Web-Scraping/Medium_article_downloader/README.md

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+# Medium Article Downloader #
+
+![Image](medium.PNG)
+
+Medium is a treasure trove of knowledge. It is a great place to read and write blogs
+
+Through this script, the contents of a medium article can be downloaded and stored
+
+The script is written in Python
+
+The Beautiful Soup library in Python enables web scraping and enables parsing though html content, which web pages are made of. Here, the same has been used.
+
+## Implementation ##
+
+- The user is prompted to enter the URL of the Medium article that has to be downloaded
+
+- The contents are then stored in a file named Medium$_article$_content.txt
+
+
+